william scharf



(No Model.)

C. W. SCHARF.

MAGAZINE GUN. A No. 249,408. Patented Nov. 8,1881.

UNITED STA-TES PATENT OFI-ica6 C. WILLIAM SCHARF, OF NEV HAVEN,CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WHITNEY ARMS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MAGAZINE-GUN.

`SII?ECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,406, datedNovember 8, 1881.

' Application filed July 30, 1881. (No model),

To all rwhom 'it may concern:

VBe it known that I, C. WM. SCHARF, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inMagazine Fire-Arms; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which Vsaid drawings Vconstitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1, a sectional side view; Fig. 2, a detached view.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of magazinefire-arms in which the breech-pieceis arranged to move longitudinallyback and forth toward and from the rear open end 0f the barrel, causedso to move by means of a cam-like lever hung directly to thebreechpiece, and which extends down through the receiver to form thetrigger-guard below, the object of the invention being, principally, towithdraw the firing-pin in the rear movement of the breech-piece, and sothat when the breech-piece is returned the firing-pin will not bebrought in forcible contact with the primer until struck by the hammer;also, to provide the breech-piece with an ejector which will forciblyeject the exploded shell after it has been withdrawn from the chamber ofthe barrel, or the cartridgeif it be not exploded; and the inventionconsists in the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafterdescribed, and particularly recited in the claims.

A represents the receiver, to the forward end of which the barrel B isattached; C, the breech-piece, arranged to move in suitable guides bymeans of a lever, D, hung to the breech-piece upon a pivot, a, the saidlever ex- -tending backward, so as to take a bearing at the rear end ofthe opening in the receiver to resist recoil, thence extending downwardthrough the receiver to form the trigger-guard E. The under or forwardside of the lever within the receiver is curved, as shown, so that inturning down the lever that point connected with the breech-piece at thepivot a lmoves backward in a line substantially the axial lineof thebarrel, and so as to draw with it the breech-piece in a well-knownmanner, known as the Burgess arm.77

F is the carrier, hung upon a pivot, b, the forward end in its normalcondition standing in line with the opening G from the magazine, so asat the proper time to receive a cartridge therel'rom, to be transferredto a position in line with the barrel. The spring d bears against aprojection, c, below the pivot ot` the carrier, the spring provided withnotches, into which the projection e will fall as it approaches its upor down position, so as to be held in either of its two positions untilpower is applied, as hereinafter described, to turn the carrier fromoneposition to the other. The breechpiece is drawn back by turningthelever from the position seen in Fig. 1 to the position seen in brokenlines same ligure. Asit approaches the last part of its rear movement, astud f, on the side of' the lever D, near the pivot a, strikes an arm,h, extending upward from the carrier in the rear of the pivot, whichdepresses that end ot' the receiver and raises the forward end into linewith the barrel, so as to present the cartridges received from themagazine forward ot the breeoh-piece. The carrier will remain in thisposition until the breechpiece is moved so far Iforward as to haveentered the cartridge into its chamber, and as the breech-pieceapproaches the barrel, and the locking part of the lever comes into itshorizontal position, a stud, t', on the side of the lever strikes thearm 7L of the carrier on the rear side and turns the carrier back to itsplace of rest below the breech-piece. vThe spring d and the notches atits bearing-points hold the carrier in either of its two positions.

m is the tiring-pin proper; but to communicate the force ot' the hammerto that pin-an intermediate pin, n, is arranged through the supportingpart ofthe lever, and which is bu-t a continuation of the firing-pin,extended so far to the rear in the lever D that the nose of the hammer H'will strike the rear end when thrown down, and thereby throw it forwardagainst the iiring-pin proper, m, to communicate the blow of the hammerto the primer. In Fig. 2 the ring-pin and its withdrawing mechanism isshown in horizontal section.

' r is a bell-crank lever, hung in a horizontal position in thebreech-piece on a pivot, s, one arm in connection with the tiring-pin,the other IOO extending through the side of the breechpiece into acavity, t, in the side of the receiver. This cavity extends to the rearonly sufficiently far to permit the iring-pin to be thrown forward, asseen in Fig. 2; but so soon as the breech piece commences its rearmovement thc arm of the lever extending outside of the breech-piecestrikes the rear end of the recess t, which turns that arm inward andthe other arm rearward, giving to the firing-pin the retreating movementto the same extent as seen in broken lines, Fig. 2. e

The ejector consists of a bolt, u, arranged in a recess in thebreech-piece beneath the firingpin for longitudinal movement, with aspring, w, at the rear, the tendency of which is t0 force the said boltforward, but which may be compressed, so that when the breech-piece isclosed the ejector u will strike the head of the 'cartridge and beforced rearward against its spring Hush with the face of thebreech-piece.

Below the bolt a is a lever hung to a pivot, u', one arm of which, u2,extends rearward, the other arm, n3, forward, terminating in abeveled-nosed hookto engage with a corresponding notch, u, on theejector when the ejector is pressed back, as seen in Fig. 1. A spring,a5, in rear of the pivot operates upon the arm u2 to cause theengagement of the arm ua with the hook-like latch and hold the bolt inits drawn-back position until the breech-piece approaches its extremerear movement; then a shoulder, u", on the lever d, up comes againstfthe under side of the arm u2, forcing that arm upward and the hooked endua downward to release the bolt, as seen in broken lines, Fig. 1. Thisengagement ot' the shoulder a6 with the ejector-lever occurs after theshell or cartridge, as the case may be, has been withdrawn from thebarrel by the extractor-hook lar, and when the ejector is so releasedits spring w reacts, forcing the ejector u hard and with a quickmovement forward, which turns the mouth of the shell upward and gives tothe shell a force which will eject it from the receiver.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly lmovable breech-piece,

vmovable breech-piece,

claiming operating vthe carrier in a magazinearm by means of the lever,or a longitudinallymovable breech-piece having a tiring-pin retracted bythe rear movement of the breech- 5o arranged in a breech-piece to act inconnection with the firing-pin to withdraw the pin as the ybreech-piececommences its rear movement, and therefore do not broadly v ices.

claim such de- I am also aware of the patent of Tiesing and Kennedy,No.`2l8,462, which shows a spring- 6o catch arranged to engage andrelease the ejector, and claim nothing shown in said patent; but

What I do claim isv 1. In a re-arm having a longi-tudinallythecombination, -with said breech-piece, of the firing-pin lml and thebell-crank lever r', pivoted in saidbreechpiece, one arm engaged withthe tiring-pin, theother extended outward and working in a recess, t, 7oin the side of the receiver, so that the arm in said recess-t willstrike the rear end of said recess as the breech-piece moves rearwardand cause thesaid lever to turn and withdrawfthe firing-pin,substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a lire-arm having a longitudinallythe combination, with saidbreech-piece, of the spring-ejector bolt u,

' the lever hung upon a pivot below said bolt, 8o thevforward armhook-shaped to engage lsaid bolt and hold it in its rear or setposition,the rear arm extending rearward, and a shoulder against whichthe rear arm of the leverwill strike as the breech-piece approaches its`ex- 85 i treme rear movement, and thereby release the ejector,substantially as described.

G. WM.'SGHARF.

Witnesses:

J. H. SHUMWAY, LILLIAN D. ROGERS.

